Blizzard initially said the phone number requirement was part of an effort to combat cheating, but many people complained about it for a variety of reasons, and some prepaid phone plans did not work.

Overwatch 2 requires all players — including those that play on console — to activate SMS Protect with a valid phone number on their Battle.net account before they can play. Blizzard says that ...

Activision-Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick has given each of the company's employees his phone number to assist with coronavirus-related issues. The CEO appeared on CNBC recently to speak about some of ...

However, some users have received a message stating they need to enter a “post-paid phone number” to access certain games, like Overwatch 2 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II.